Subject: bug#13388: closed (Re: bug#13388: Date of 2012-10-21: "invalid date". Bug?)

From: [email-masked] (GNU bug Tracking System)
Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2013 17:34:02 +0000

Your bug report

#13388: Date of 2012-10-21: "invalid date". Bug?

which was filed against the coreutils package, has been closed.

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Subject: Re: bug#13388: Date of 2012-10-21: "invalid date". Bug?
From: Eric Blake <[email-masked]>
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Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2013 10:33:09 -0700
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tag 13388 notabug
thanks

On 01/08/2013 06:02 AM, [email-masked] wrote:
>   
> 
> Hi, 
> 
>  When I try to get the date of 2012-10-21: 
> 
> root@cidLogin:~#
> date -d 20121021 
> 
> date: invalid date `20121021' 
> 
>  Is this a bug?

No.  It is a factor of daylight savings in your timezone.  Midnight does
not exist in your locale on that particular date.

You can use --utc to force the use of times where daylight savings has
no impact.  For more information, see the FAQ:
https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/coreutils-faq.html#The-date-command-is-not-working-right_002e

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Subject: Date of 2012-10-21: "invalid date". Bug?
From: [email-masked]
To: <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked], [email-masked], [email-masked]
Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2013 11:02:50 -0200
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Hi, 

 When I try to get the date of 2012-10-21: 

root@cidLogin:~#
date -d 20121021 

date: invalid date `20121021' 

 Is this a bug? The
result is the same both in Opensuse Tumbleweed and Ubuntu 12.04.

Thanks and sorry for disturbing, 

Danilo Luvizotto